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Emails: How to Set Up Apple, Outlook & Gmail Account

This section explains how to connect your email accounts to various mail client applications for sending and receiving emails. Contact support regarding email hosting, DNS, and setting up your email if you’re having trouble connecting or your email application isn’t listed.
Remember: Regardless of your email client, configure it to delete emails from the server after they’re fetched to avoid exceeding your inbox’s 100MB storage limit. Check the configuration guides for specific instructions on how to do this for your email client.

Gmail

To send and receive emails in Gmail, open Gmail in your browser and click the settings (gear) icon in the top right of the screen.

Click the Accounts and Imports tab and under the Check mail from other accounts option, click the Add a mail account link.

In the “Add a mail account” window, enter the email address and click next.

If you see the following step, choose the Import emails from my other account (POP3) and click next.

Then enter you email account credentials and server information:
  • Username – Default is your email address
  • Password – The password you created or the strong password generated when creating the Email Account
  • Pop Server – mailu.wpmudev.host
  • Port – 995
  • And check the box always use a secure connection (SSL) when retrieving mail.
  • Make sure to uncheck the Leave a copy of retrieved message on the server box to ensure your inbox does not hit the 100Mb limit.
  • Click add account

If you would like to also be able to send emails from your Gmail account, choose the Yes, I want to be able to send mail as option.

You will then be asked to enter information about your other email address. Make sure to check the Treat as an alias box so that messages received from your A-Z+ email account will appear in your Gmail inbox. Click Next Step when this is done.

Configure the send options:
  • SMTP Server – This is mailu.wpmudev.host
  • Port – 587
  • Username – Default is your email address
  • Password – The password you created or the strong password generated when creating the Email Account

Click the Add account button. You’ll then receive a confirmation email in your Gmail inbox with the verification link/code you need to confirm this action.
Minimize (don’t close) the “Add a mail account” window, go to your Gmail inbox and verify the account by either by clicking on the verification link or by copying the confirmation code and pasting it in the corresponding field in the “Add a mail account” window.

You should now be able to send and receive emails from the Gmail client.
If you encounter an issue connecting to Gmail, contact support.

Apple Mail

Follow these instructions to connect your email account to the Mail application included with your Mac computer or Apple iOS device.
Choose the Add an account option or (+) icon in the Mail application preferences for a laptop or desktop computer, or from the preferences in your iOS device, select, Add Account.

Choose the Other option in the list of clients.

Enter:
  • Your name
  • Email address
  • The password
And click the Sign-in button. This will display the message, Unable to verify the account name or password.

Be sure to switch account type to POP, and for the incoming and outgoing mail servers, input mailu.wpmudev.host.
Select the Apps you want to use with the account and click done.
You should now be able to send and receive emails from your Apple devices using the Mail application.
You can access additional configuration options for your POP account in the mail configurations options.
Make sure to check the Remove copy from the server after retrieving a message box to ensure your WPMU DEV inbox does not hit the 100Mb limit.

Note that if you’re setting this up on an iPhone, you may need to double-check that SMTP is enabled for this account (with correct username & password), and SSL is set to port 587.

Outlook

To send and receive emails in Outlook, begin by opening the Outlook desktop application and clicking File in the menu ribbon. Next, click the Add Account button.

Enter the email address you wish to connect, and click the checkbox for the Let me set up my account manually option. Then, click Connect.

Select POP as the type of email account you are connecting.

The information required to complete the POP email setup is located on the Email Accounts screen for the site associated with that address.
Go to the Active Email Accounts section and click the information button.

Copy the connection information into the appropriate fields in Outlook’s POP setup screen.

Enter the following information into the indicated fields:
  • Servers – The same server, or host, is used for both incoming and outgoing email, so enter mailu.wpmudev.host into both server fields.
  • Incoming port – The incoming port for all email accounts is 995. So, enter that number into the incoming mail port field.
  • Outgoing port – The outgoing port for all email accounts is 587. So, enter that number into the outgoing mail port field.
  • Encryption method – TLS is enabled for all hosted email accounts, but there are two TLS options available in Outlook. It is important to select the STARTTLS option.Mac User?If you are configuring this in the Outlook app on an Apple device and don’t see the STARTTLS option for the Outgoing mail > Encryption method as noted above, try setting it to SSL and Port 465. Then, under Advanced Settings at the last step (as seen in the image below), switch the Authentication from Incoming Server Info to Username/Password.

When ready, click the Next button. On the next screen, Outlook will request the email account password. This is the password you chose or the strong password we provided when the email address was created. Enter the email address password into the field provided by Outlook and click Connect.

Click Done to complete adding the account.

Next, click File in the menu ribbon, then click the Account Settings dropdown menu and choose Account Settings.

Double-click the email account that you added.

Make sure the Leave a copy on the server box is unchecked to ensure your inbox does not hit the 100Mb limit.

Finally, click Next, then Done to save the changes. You can now begin sending and receiving emails from the Outlook client using the connected email address.
Windows Mail
IMPORTANT
Windows Mail does not have the option to remove email from the server after you’ve downloaded or synced it to your client. This means that an email will cease functioning once your 100Mb limit for the connected email account is reached. This guide is provided as a configuration example for your convenience, but we do not recommend this client.
To send and receive emails from your email account in Windows Mail, first open the Mail app in Windows 10. In the application settings, click Manage accounts and Add account.

From the list of account types, click Advanced setup. On the next screen, select Internet email.

Enter the account information associated with your email address:
  • Email address
  • User name – Your email address.
  • Password
  • Account name
  • Incoming email server –mailu.wpmudev.host.
  • Account type – POP3.
  • Outgoing email server – mailu.wpmudev.host.

Click Sign in to finish adding your account. Once finished, you should be able to send and receive emails from Windows Mail using the connected to your email address.

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